Word: clubb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...four Chinese Communist officials and their police escort were just 50 minutes late in keeping the appointment. Shortly before 10 o'clock one morning last week, they took possession of the office of U.S. Consul General O. Edmund Clubb in the spacious U.S. legation compound in Peking, precisely as they had said they would, seven days earlier...
They had warned him first by issuing a military proclamation: the People's Government was claiming all military barracks of foreign powers. Consul Clubb had written daily protests pointing out that his office hadn't been used as a barracks since 1947, and as diplomatic quarters it was protected by treaty. All his protests were returned, unacknowledged, and looking as though they had been opened and read. Then Washington warned Peking that the U.S. would answer seizure of its consulate by removing all U.S. consular officials from China. Again no response...